How large organizations execute internal startups? - A Cynefin based multiple case study on development processes.
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Context: Innovation is essential for large companies survivability. By setting up internal startups as exploratory vehicles, large companies can create new products and businesses, and compete with the high rate of new software startups in emerging markets.
Objective: The research aims at exploring the development processes within internal startups. The main objective of the research is to create a deeper understanding of how internal startups can succeed, by exploring how process methodologies as lean startup can be applied in a large organization context.
Method: A research model was developed based on the Cynefin framework, lean startup, multidimensional view of venture performance, process theories for development and change. The model was explored and validated by a literature review and a multiple case study. The multiple case study was composed of three cases, vipps from DNB and two internal startups from Tieto. All prominent examples of internal startups in the field of software engineering. The data was analyzed using thematic synthesis and various strategies for analyzing process data.
Results: The origin of the idea was found to heavily influence the development processes of the internal startups. As well as the connection between the parent organization and the internal startup, linking to strategic relatedness and autonomy. The internal startups which was initialized as team first startups and strategically unrelated, utilized lean startup patterns in a greater extent, due to the increased level of uncertainty.
Conclusion: Considering the scarce collection of previous literature in the internal startups field, this research contributes to defining internal startups and connecting it to preceding observations. The use of Cynefin framework as a research tool, is comparatively new, hence it has a theoretical contribution linking process theories and lean startup to the framework. Additionally, there are multiple practical implications on how to drive internal startups for future success. Thus, this research contributes to future research, by constructing a foundation for understanding how to successfully implement internal startups in larger organizations.
Keywords: Internal startup, Lean startup, Cynefin, Software Engineering, Process, Internal Corporate Ventures